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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἔφιππος (Éphippos).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Ephippus m sg (genitive Ephippī); second declension
- A Greek historian of Alexander the Great, born in Olynthus
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
Descendants
References
- Ephippus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Ephippus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray